0 present participle of flutter
1 to make a series of quick delicate movements up and down or from side to side, or to cause something to do this:
2 If your heart or stomach flutters, you feel slightly uncomfortable because you are excited or nervous:
Superimposed in three tracks or layers, the continuing pitches create a world of rich, vibrating, fluttering sounds.
Around this ground element, one hears percussive gestures, staccato sounds, patterns of repeated sounds, high vibratos or fluttering sounds, glottal stops and multiphonics.
It begins with alternating strands of quiet contemplative and lively dance-like music and then, after a fluttering settling section, closes with serene slow music.
The configurations of the grid fluttering in the wind propose a fluid alternative to the picture plane.
He would freewheel about the stage, waving his hands and fluttering his fingers.
The latter are completely cut loose from a techno foundation, following instead the fluttering rhythms of seemingly randomised bursts of static interlaced with staccato sine tones.
I admit that our approach in clause 6 is rather novel and will, no doubt, cause a fair amount of fluttering in the legal dovecotes.
I understand that this proposal has caused some flutterings in certain quarters, but we have been through this sort of thing before.
